W. Tsutsui: In Godzilla's Footsteps

Cover: 9781403964632 | In Godzilla's Footsteps | W. Tsutsui (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xii

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Beschreibung

These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies and from Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano and others.

Über den Autor

WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas, USA. He is also the author of Godzilla on My Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and two books on Japanese history.

MICHIKO ITO is Japanese Studies Librarian at the University of Kansas, USA.

Zusammenfassung

Popular subject - Godzilla is a cult topic that is popular with the book-buying audience

Academically rigorous - takes an informed look at the academic ramifications of pop culture, placing it well on Cultural Studies courses

Strong contributors - includes the brightest stars in Japanese pop culture studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; W.M.Tsutsui When Godzilla Speaks; S.Napier Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity; M.Anderson Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event; B.Kushner Lost in Translation and Morphed in Transit: Godzilla in Cold War America; S.Guthrie-Shimizu Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body; [...] Mothra's Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan; Yoshikuni Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture; [...] Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon; J.Bernardi "Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste": Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira in Japan and Canada; K.J.Wetmore Jr. Godzilla Meets Super-Kyogen, or How a Dinosaur Saved the World; [...] Monstering the Japanese Cute: Pink Globalization and Its Critics Abroad; [...] Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawai'i; H.Katsuno Apocalypsis in Fantasy and Reality: Japanese Pop Culture in Contemporary Russia; Y.Mikhailova Epilogue: He Did the Stomp, He Did the Monster Stomp; T.C.Bestor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xii 212 S.
ISBN-13:	9781403964632
ISBN-10:	1403964637
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tsutsui, William M. Ito, Michiko
Redaktion:	Tsutsui, W. Ito, M.
Herausgeber:	W Tsutsui/M Ito
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	244 x 170 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	W. Tsutsui (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.09.2006
Gewicht:	0,402 kg